From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Gnus state, feed commands
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:17:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob5k1a9q.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (raw)
In Gnus, I have a group like this:
mail.misc (5)
to collect incomings mails.
I'm thinking, wouldn't it be cool if you never had to
check for mails, instead Emacs did that, and then told
you "you have 5 mails" in the mode line?
I guess I could schedule checking with
`run-with-idle-timer' - coincidentally, that's great,
because when you work (i.e., type) you don't want to be
disturbed and get mails, but when you idle for some
time, it would be a good slot for Emacs to check for
them.
To change the mode line, I have this in my .emacs:
(defun set-mode-line ()
"Mode line: Show the mode line elements if the
respective global booleans are set."
(interactive)
(setq-default mode-line-format
`(" "
(*show-mode-line-modified* mode-line-modified)
(*show-mode-line-modified* " ")
(*show-mode-line-caption* *mode-line-caption*)
(*show-mode-line-caption* " ")
(*show-default-directory* default-directory)
(*show-mode-line-buffer-identification* mode-line-buffer-identification)
(*show-mode-line-buffer-identification* " ")
(line-number-mode "[%l] ")
(column-number-mode "{%c} ")
(*show-mode-line-modes* mode-line-modes)
)))
(set-mode-line)
So you see, putting that information in the mode line
shouldn't be that difficult.
But what I don't know is: how do I access the "state"
of Gnus? I.e., how do I get that number "5"? And, how
do I feed command to Gnus, in the background, without
switching buffers or triggering any other visual noise?
--
Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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2013-11-16 18:17 Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-11-16 19:31 ` W. Greenhouse
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2013-11-16 20:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-17 23:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-20 23:00 ` W. Greenhouse
[not found] ` <mailman.6725.1384988464.10748.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2013-11-21 22:54 ` Emanuel Berg
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